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Speaker 1: Wayne put Ross on it and Little Wayne on it.

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Speaker 1: Ross knocked it out for me when we was on tour,

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Speaker 2: Had to step it up.

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Speaker 3: DJ Khaled was on top of the music world at

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Speaker 3: about the same time his favorite team, the Miami Heat.

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Speaker 3: We're living their dream as well. Welcome back to four

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Speaker 3: years of Heat. I'm your host Israel Gutierrez and this

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Speaker 3: is episode six.

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Speaker 4: The shot.

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Speaker 3: I'm on one, in which Lil Wayne drops a pat

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Speaker 3: Riley reference and a Heat double Entandra in his verse,

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Speaker 3: was released during Miami's first championship season with this core,

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Speaker 3: and by the time the twenty thirteen finals began, the

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Speaker 3: was the type of test this Heat team hadn't experienced yet,

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Speaker 3: a physically daunting task that was unlike the Pacers, who

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Speaker 3: did it with size and toughness. The Spurs exhausted teams

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Speaker 3: by making them chase a basketball constantly in motion, forcing

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Speaker 3: remembers just how taxing it was to stay with these Spurs,

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Speaker 3: especially in the last series of the year, after the

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Speaker 3: Heat had already played ninety eight games to that point

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Speaker 2: Like I knew this about these guys.

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Speaker 5: I knew the way they played a game of basketball

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Speaker 2: You had to worry about all five guys.

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Speaker 5: Everybody was active, everybody was a threat, everybody was involved.

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Speaker 5: It was just a basketball team, man, a great basketball team.

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Speaker 5: So you know, we knew that they were going to

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Speaker 3: Shane Battier already felt he'd reached his physical limit by

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Speaker 3: He hit just two of his fifteen shots in that series,

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Speaker 3: Battier didn't play at all. So heading into a Spurs

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Speaker 3: Battier was always helpful with an intelligent quote, whether it

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Speaker 3: On the subject of his poor play and eventual benching.

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Speaker 3: In Game seven against the Pacers, however, Battier probably offered

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Speaker 3: He said of the benching, sometimes you've got to eat

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Speaker 3: a turd sandwich makes the ribbi I taste better next time. Okay,

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Speaker 3: so maybe you didn't want to remember that quote, but

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Speaker 3: It would have to be the Spurs of Tim Duncan,

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Speaker 4: Well, they played small.

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Speaker 3: What was staring back at Miami was the most dominant

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Speaker 3: Matt Bonner was a reserve on that Spurs team that

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Speaker 7: They had a lot of talent, but they were really

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Speaker 4: Game one of that finals would beg to differ.

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Speaker 3: The box score was a bit of a puzzle, as

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Speaker 3: Tony Parker turned a broken play into a game winning

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Speaker 8: Shot clock at won Parker not going to get a

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Speaker 6: It was a crazy play.

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Speaker 10: I thought I lost the ball like three or four

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Speaker 10: you know, at the end, I was just trying to

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Speaker 4: Went in just like that.

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Speaker 3: The Heat were down one game to none in the

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Speaker 3: it ended with the Spurs capitalizing on a little luck

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Speaker 3: at the end, it felt like a season of amazing

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Speaker 2: We were a little nervous. We're a little nervous, I

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Speaker 5: Losing game one, okay, See, we built confidence because you

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Speaker 5: don't do that. These are different things that San Antonio.

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Speaker 5: You're like, where did we go wrong?

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Speaker 2: What happened? You know what I'm saying? When did this?

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Speaker 5: So now they said they have you searching a little bit,

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Speaker 2: I messed that up. I knew I messed this up.

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Speaker 2: We fixed this, We'll be fine. Now.

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Speaker 5: You just kind of searching a little bit, and they

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Speaker 2: They put you in that place of a little a doubt.

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Speaker 3: To pull this series out against the Spurs, not only

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Speaker 3: Lebron James in the past. Not only did Spurs coach

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Speaker 3: the two thousand and seven Finals that earned his Spurs

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Speaker 3: The first two plus quarters of Game two did very

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Speaker 3: little to quell the concerns of the Heat that Popovich

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Speaker 3: Before the series began, Chalmers figured this wasn't going to

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Speaker 2: I know it's gonna be a tough series for me.

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Speaker 11: Where they told me that San Antonio is a team

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Speaker 2: I'll love a confrontation. I love when you talk to me.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk.

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Speaker 11: Back, but I can't handle Oh you missed that shot,

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Speaker 11: You'll make it again next time, Like huh, Like how

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Speaker 2: I don't know what to.

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Speaker 12: Say to that.

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Speaker 4: So who would say that?

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Speaker 2: All of them?

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Speaker 11: Tim Duncle said, Tony Parker will say like they were

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Speaker 2: Was like.

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Speaker 13: Like, no, we're out here for blood, like this is

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Speaker 13: for the Championshi, Like, I'm not supposed to like you.

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Speaker 13: I was supposed to respect you, which I do respect you,

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Speaker 13: like you papped me on the back, you helping me out,

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Speaker 13: of like I like that, Like I don't like you

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Speaker 13: being a nice guy to me. You can do that

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Speaker 13: off the court, but basketball were going at it.

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Speaker 3: In Game two, though Chalmers didn't need the Spurs players

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Speaker 3: The Heat were at home and it was starting to

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Speaker 9: Chalmers counted hand along. I don't know if Green actually

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Speaker 3: Chalmers would convert the free throw and on the next

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Speaker 8: Chalmers into the lane push shot gun it unfound hand

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Speaker 3: In the fourth, Rio added another short jumper to give

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Speaker 3: The game was never close again, and despite Chalmers outscoring

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Speaker 3: calls Championship Alley, cameras caught Lebron praising his point guard

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Speaker 3: big timers.

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Speaker 2: Big time boy, what puck?

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Speaker 3: Still, the Heat had given up home court advantage to

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Speaker 3: court edge. Well, Game three did just as much to

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Speaker 3: After winning by nineteen in Game two, the Heat lost

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Speaker 3: by thirty six. In Game three in San Antonio, the

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Speaker 3: and Gary Neal combined to hit thirteen three pointers in

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Speaker 9: Neil has to put it off way outside, then he

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Speaker 9: knocks it down. Carry Neal having the game of his

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Speaker 9: life here in the NBA Finals. Neil tries it again,

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Speaker 9: puts it in carry Neal coming on a show. The

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Speaker 9: twenty one point lead, He's got twenty four letter drives.

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Speaker 9: Neil touched past the green another three pointer.

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Speaker 14: That's good.

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Speaker 9: Thirteen threes for San Antonio.

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Speaker 3: And to this point, Lebron James's scoring totals were eighteen

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Speaker 3: unlike the Dallas series, James wasn't getting the same level

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Speaker 3: of support from Wade. Miami's shooting guard had only scored

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Speaker 3: forty three points through three games himself. In fact, by

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Speaker 3: Wade had only experienced two twenty point scoring games the

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Speaker 3: against Milwaukee and another twenty one coming in Game seven

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Speaker 3: against the Pacers. If Wade was going to win his

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Speaker 3: need to be more of a compliment to James, just

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Speaker 3: like the previous postseason, when the Heat needed Way to

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Speaker 3: win Game four in Indiana and he responded with thirty points,

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Speaker 3: nine assists and six rebounds. They needed him to come

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Speaker 3: up Hughes in another Game four that also felt like

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Speaker 3: a must win.

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Speaker 15: He looks up from must we gotta go get it

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Speaker 15: back tonight, try to begin it.

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Speaker 11: I not is difficult.

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Speaker 8: Is costed it last?

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Speaker 14: Second weight weight.

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Speaker 3: Wade was at his best when a championship team needed

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Speaker 3: him most, scoring thirty two points with six rebounds, six steals,

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Speaker 3: and four assists. James and Bosh also combined for fifty three,

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Speaker 3: giving Miami the performance from their stars that they desperately

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Speaker 9: Alan kicks it out to Wade. Wade to the basket

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Speaker 9: off but under and backs it in. What a performance

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Speaker 9: of the night.

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Speaker 3: It was the type of show you Donnis Haslam had

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Speaker 3: seen from Wade so many times through their first ten

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Speaker 3: years together.

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Speaker 5: I've always, you know, sat back and just watched you,

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Speaker 5: Wade Man, and just be a part of his journey,

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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Obviously, you know, if I

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Speaker 2: So you know, when you when you.

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Speaker 5: Have a relationship with somebody like that, you know, you

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Speaker 5: just happy to see them do well, no matter what

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Speaker 2: And so for me, I was just happy to see

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Speaker 3: Wade went on to play forty eight more playoff games

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Speaker 3: in his career after those thirty two points in Game four,

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Speaker 3: and he'd only surpass that total one more time in

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Speaker 3: a twenty sixteen series against Toronto. It was the last

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Speaker 3: and it would come at the absolute perfect time. The

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Speaker 3: Wade relying on James in big playoff moments, but James

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Speaker 3: knew this was a much needed performance from his co star,

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Speaker 3: and he said as much afterward.

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Speaker 16: More than anybody, we needed d Wade to be the

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Speaker 16: Flash of six. He definitely came through for us. Every

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Speaker 16: fourth quarter, who was doing a zero step and he

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Speaker 16: I mean, he was all over the place, man, and

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Speaker 16: we needed that type of game from him to even

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Speaker 3: By Game five, the Spurs were looking to change the momentum,

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Speaker 3: Dia would play more minutes and guard Lebron James for

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Speaker 3: almost all of them. Yeah, the Spurs had Kawhi Leonard,

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Speaker 3: but he couldn't handle Lebron by himself. Not in his

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Speaker 14: Again, here's d l So, you know in April, just

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Speaker 14: that's why the playoff already started. It's stuff to kind

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Speaker 2: Then he took a chance with me. Di.

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Speaker 3: I was drafted twenty first in the same draft class

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Speaker 3: DIA's body was more solid and he was able to

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Speaker 3: do just what Popovich asked, give Lebron just enough space

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Speaker 2: So yeah, a lot easier said than done.

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Speaker 14: So that's the overall concept now, not letting him get

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Speaker 12: You know.

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Speaker 14: It was like, yeah, make him take jumpshond but how

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Speaker 14: and so and that's why you know, they tried to

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Speaker 14: I had enough weight, enough strength to actually trying to

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Speaker 14: obviously he would it would beat you because he was

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Speaker 2: It's not you know, just let him shoot.

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Speaker 14: That's not you know what we meant by okay, right,

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Speaker 14: you'd rather have him take him outside chat he has to.

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Speaker 14: He still has to be a contested chot because if

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Speaker 14: So it was just speaker poison. It was just better

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Speaker 14: for us to have him taking an outside chat that

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Speaker 14: is contested. I want to say it again, it's not

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Speaker 14: just an open outside chot, but it was.

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Speaker 14: It was better for us d than him coming close

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Speaker 3: Dial's additional presence appeared to affect James. In Game five,

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Speaker 3: Boris played twenty seven minutes and Lebron was just eight

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Speaker 3: of twenty two from the field. He hit two of

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Speaker 8: the ball. It's supposed to be hard. It's the final,

443
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:35,120
Speaker 8: all right, Give him some adversity, knock the stuffing out

444
00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:35,400
Speaker 8: of him.

445
00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,880
Speaker 3: The result was a ten point Spurs win that put

446
00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,919
Speaker 3: the heat on the brink of elimination. Returning back to

447
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,240
Speaker 3: Miami for Game six and seven, San.

448
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 9: Antonio Spurs take a three to two lead in the

449
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 9: NBA Finals, doc to Miami.

450
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Speaker 16: We've been here before and going back home being confident about,

451
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 16: you know, our game, being confident about you know, getting

452
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 16: a win, which we are.

453
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:58,879
Speaker 3: The Heat would have to win both in order to

454
00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:03,360
Speaker 3: earn its second straight championship. Without those two wins, Miami

455
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 3: would fall to one and two in three Finals appearances

456
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,600
Speaker 3: since James's arrival. It wasn't quite like going into Boston

457
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 3: for a Game six because you had a championship in

458
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 3: your back pocket. But it was beginning to feel like

459
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 3: a historic regular season would be deemed rather meaningless because

460
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,919
Speaker 3: the Spurs had just too much firepower from Miami. What

461
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 3: would it take to overcome this deficit and fend off

462
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,640
Speaker 3: the Spurs? Only a game Lebron James would call by

463
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,879
Speaker 3: far the best game he's been a part of, and

464
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 3: arguably the biggest shot in NBA Finals history.

465
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,680
Speaker 16: You know what, twenty plus seconds ago and us being

466
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 16: down five, you know, the human nature, doubt starts to

467
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:46,160
Speaker 16: creep into your mind.

468
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 15: You see San Antonio fans popping in jerseys, you know,

469
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 15: jumping up and down.

470
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 4: It's a dark moment.

471
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 9: We're back in Miami, where the NBA Finals return.

472
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 4: Or Game six, well the Spurs close out.

473
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 9: And win their fifth championship, or can Miami force a

474
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 9: decisive Game seven?

475
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 3: Game six between the Heat and the Spurs in American

476
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 3: Airlines Arena was everything a sports fan could ask for.

477
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 3: There was the Jugger Nott favorite, the Miami Heat, attempting

478
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 3: to avoid elimination at home in front of boisterous but

479
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 3: nervous fans, all dressed in white. There were the underdog

480
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 3: San Antonio Spurs, established winners, trying to complete a seemingly

481
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,600
Speaker 3: impossible task in a challenging setting.

482
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Speaker 16: Go Man, Go has a fun protect tone court. Hey,

483
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 16: when you think you gave everything that you got, you

484
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 16: gotta give more.

485
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 2: Sure, you gotta give more, man, It's all about us.

486
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 3: You could feel the tension in the building throughout the game,

487
00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 3: and neither team was truly able to take control. The

488
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 3: Heat actually took a forty to thirty three lead in

489
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 3: the second quarter, it's largest of the game, and it

490
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 3: looked for a moment like Miami would create some distance

491
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 3: from San Antonio.

492
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 9: Wait pumps sooner, Jenoble Natty wide open heaps of praise.

493
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 4: But the Spurs would truly put the heat's feet to

494
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 4: the fire with a seventeen to four run to close

495
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 4: the half with a six point lead.

496
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 9: Harker gets in the paint, kicks it out, d out

497
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 9: for three, won't go, Blinder tips up and then what's

498
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 9: one point three from landing?

499
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 4: What a hustle play for Blinder?

500
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Speaker 9: I have a second quarter comps doing in on one

501
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,160
Speaker 9: of those runs.

502
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 3: And then open the third quarter with a Genobli three

503
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 3: pointer that put the Spurs up nine points.

504
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 4: The tension was building.

505
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,600
Speaker 6: Here's battier tension was this is the right word.

506
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 2: You know.

507
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 6: We were just looking for a spark, anything, just get

508
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 6: us going. We this never happened. It just never came.

509
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 6: That six to zero run, that eight to two runs,

510
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 6: just never never had it. And they kept making shots

511
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 6: and quite as hitting threes. As were just like, go

512
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 6: be kidding me. So I'm like to say, I'm gonna

513
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,359
Speaker 6: say that we were the most confident group in the huddle.

514
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 6: Never gave up. We never gave up. Then in the huddle,

515
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 6: you know, we were just say stay with it, stay

516
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 6: with it, stay with it, stay with it, stay with it.

517
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 4: But did you feel it? You're saying stay with it,

518
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 4: but did you feel it?

519
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 6: I don't I said it. I was trying to will

520
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 6: it into existence. That's what we were all trying to

521
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 6: will that that feeling into existence. I don't know in

522
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 6: our heart of hearts if we truly truly felt confident,

523
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 6: but we were trying to fake it till we made it.

524
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 3: Lebron didn't have to fake it. He'd made it before

525
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 3: in a similar circumstance with his team's championship hopes on

526
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,439
Speaker 3: the line just a year earlier, so his response to

527
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 3: the Spurs threat was to put his head down and

528
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 3: power through. At some point there, he lost his white

529
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 3: headband and committed three turnovers in a sort of bold

530
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,400
Speaker 3: in the China Shop type of stretch. It was maniacal,

531
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 3: but it worked, as James scored half of his thirty.

532
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 4: Two points in the fourth quarter.

533
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 3: Bosh explained how a desperate Lebron did anything in everything

534
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 3: the team needed at the moment.

535
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 14: We needed a big shot, we needed a block of

536
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 14: stop leadership, anything. He's just been able to plug in

537
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 14: that hole.

538
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 9: Sunday, Mike Lebron James, who had lost his headband.

539
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,160
Speaker 2: You know, it doesn't hurt that he's the best player

540
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:27,679
Speaker 2: in the world.

541
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:32,760
Speaker 8: So he signed a ducking height, chucket fight, Lebron sliding

542
00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 8: it away.

543
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 4: Want a play Lebron fakes up off the.

544
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 9: Glass, said under duncan doing it on both ends.

545
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,679
Speaker 8: The MVP went out the headband.

546
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:45,960
Speaker 3: He was seven to eleven from the field in the

547
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 3: period with two assists in a block shot. His stretch

548
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 3: of head bandless play actually got Miami a three point

549
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 3: lead with under two minutes remaining. But while the Heat

550
00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 3: thought they could exhale briefly, Parker and Jenobilians dead took

551
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 3: all of the air out of the building.

552
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 8: Dude shot by Parker, step back three.

553
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 3: Tony Parker scored the next five points, including a three pointer,

554
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 3: and after Kawhi Leonard stole the ball from James on

555
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 3: the next possession, Genobili drew a foul from Ray Allen

556
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 3: and hit a pair of free throws to put the

557
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 3: Spurs up four and after yet another Lebron turnover. This

558
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,199
Speaker 3: was the downside of Lebron's bulling the China Shop approach,

559
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 3: Genobili then split a pair of free throws. The Heat

560
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,120
Speaker 3: were trailing ninety four to eighty nine with twenty eight

561
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 3: seconds left to play, as the Heat called a twenty

562
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 3: second timeout.

563
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 16: You know what twenty plus seconds ago and us being

564
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 16: down five, You know, the human nature doubt starts to

565
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 16: creep into your mind.

566
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 15: You see San Antonio fans popping in jerseys, you know,

567
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 15: jumping up and down.

568
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 2: It's a dark moment.

569
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 3: As the team was in their desperate huddle, everything around

570
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 3: them appeared to be preparing for a Spurs celebration. Not

571
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 3: only were a good amount of heat fans beginning to

572
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 3: exit the building, but an NBA championship tradition was already underway.

573
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 3: Arena personnel were crouching into place just beyond the edges

574
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 3: of the court, holding the yellow ropes that would cordon

575
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 3: off the court in preparation for the trophy presentation on it.

576
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 3: Said trophy was being transported onto the floor. Also within

577
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 3: view of those excited Spurs players and coaches, Spurs family

578
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,719
Speaker 3: and team personnel were gathering behind the Spurs bench with

579
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 3: passes already in hand that would allow them to cross

580
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 3: those yellow ropes and join in on the celebration. It

581
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 3: was all actually happening right in front of them, so

582
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 3: it was hard for the Spurs not to already feel

583
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 3: like champions. Matt Bonner made the briefest of appearances in

584
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 3: Game six, he spent almost all his time on that bench,

585
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 3: and at this moment, Bonner was fighting every instinct to celebrate.

586
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 7: I'm a huge like don't count your chickens before they

587
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 7: hatch type guy, like, you know, stay focused, and that's

588
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 7: part of the Spurs culture, in the Spurs way, like

589
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 7: you know, one game at a time, forty eight minutes,

590
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 7: play harder and smarter than your opponent. So even though yeah,

591
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 7: we were in a pretty good spot, we had two

592
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 7: shots to beat them in Miami and win the championship.

593
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 7: I was at no point was that like, oh, we

594
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 7: can do this, you know. It was like, it's not

595
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 7: It doesn't happen until it actually happens. And so coming

596
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 7: into game six, I don't know what I expected. You know,

597
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 7: there's a certain ebb and flow to your point about

598
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 7: a seven game series that's hard to quantify or put

599
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 7: your finger on. But there's certain games where it's like

600
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 7: all right, and fans I think can pick it up too,

601
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 7: or anyone watching that watches a whole series, it's like,

602
00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 7: all right, this one's gonna be a tough one. So

603
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 7: on for me, like Game six was kind of a

604
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 7: surprise that we were in the position we were in

605
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 7: to win it, and it was like, Oh my gosh,

606
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 7: like is this really gonna happen? Like are we gonna

607
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 7: beat these guys?

608
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 2: Like this team's unbelievable.

609
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 7: And here we are up five points, there's under a

610
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 7: minute left. There they're having to foul us. Like I'm

611
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 7: looking to my left, there's the Larry O'Brien trophy. The

612
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 7: whole court's roped off of the security, our friends and

613
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 7: family are standing behind the bench with after game celebration passes.

614
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 7: It's like it's like, holy smokes, like this is surreal,

615
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 7: Like we're about to win the NBA championship in Game six.

616
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 7: Did not see this coming, and then no one saw

617
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 7: what coming What happened after that.

618
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 3: What happened after that was twenty eight seconds of some

619
00:31:52,920 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 3: of the most unforgettable basketball in history. During a timeout

620
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:07,720
Speaker 3: with his Spurs leading by three and twenty eight seconds

621
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 3: away from a championship in Game six, Popovich saw that

622
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 3: the heat switched out Bosh in favor of sharpshooter Mike Miller,

623
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 3: who famously hit a three pointer earlier in the game

624
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 3: despite one of his shoes having come off his foot

625
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 3: to play before.

626
00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 9: Mike Miller was only one sneaker on.

627
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 3: Miller, so Popovich took out his big guy Tim Duncan

628
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 3: for a more versatile defender in Diau. It was a

629
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 3: move pop had made plenty before and would do again.

630
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 3: This desperate possession began with the brick of a three

631
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 3: point attempt from Lebron, but Miller, who was in for

632
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 3: Miami's best rebounder, remember, grabbed his only offensive rebound of

633
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 3: the game and kicked it back out to his buddy Lebron,

634
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 3: who knocked down this three point attempt to narrow the

635
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,480
Speaker 3: gap to ninety four to ninety two.

636
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,040
Speaker 4: With just twenty seconds remaining.

637
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 9: James catches fires a three way off rebound, still specked

638
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 9: up by Miller, back out to James. Another three, Yet God,

639
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 9: James knocks it down. Two point game. We're twenty seconds remaining.

640
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 3: The Spurs called their last time out. Popovich would set

641
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 3: up the inbounds play, knowing the Heat had to foul

642
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 3: if they wanted to extend the game, and subbed Duncan

643
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 3: back into the game to inbound the ball. Miami specifically

644
00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 3: wanted to foul Kawhi Leonard, and they got that opportunity.

645
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 9: Duncan looking has to get it in, finds Leonard. Leonard

646
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 9: fouled by Miller, who did a good job fouling right away.

647
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 3: As Leonard was at the line preparing the first free throw,

648
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 3: Ray Allen was behind him, raising his arms in a

649
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 3: request for the remaining crowd to get loud.

650
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 9: During the regular season, Kawhi Leonard eighty two percent from line.

651
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 3: Spurs players on the bench were locked arm in arm,

652
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 3: the tension written on their faces, A lot of pressure on.

653
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,320
Speaker 9: A twenty one year old in his first NBA Finals.

654
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 3: Leonard missed the first and everyone in the arena immediately

655
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:16,880
Speaker 3: knew the Heat would have a chance. In between free throws,

656
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 3: Duncan was again taken out of the game in favor

657
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 3: of dil while Spolstra took out Miller and brought in Bosch.

658
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 3: Leonard made the second free throw, increasing the lead to

659
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:32,000
Speaker 3: ninety five ninety two. With nineteen seconds left, neither team

660
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 3: had a timeout remaining. Ray Allen calmly inbounded to Mario Chalmers,

661
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:38,720
Speaker 3: who jogged the ball up the left side of the floor,

662
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 3: as Allan went up the right side of the floor

663
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 3: to use a screen set by Wade and Plant himself

664
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:45,439
Speaker 3: in the corner and it's.

665
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 4: Ninety five ninety two.

666
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,840
Speaker 9: Spurs need a stop to secure this win. Chalmers in

667
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,479
Speaker 9: the front board against Tony Parker takes it left side,

668
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 9: picked up by Leonard.

669
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 3: Chalmers, meanwhile, had gotten a screen from Bosch that forced

670
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 3: the Spurs to switch, leaving Parker on b and Leonard

671
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 3: defending Chalmers. This wasn't the Spurs normal pick and roll defense.

672
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 3: This was their no threes pick and roll defense, and

673
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 3: that's why all the switching occurred and why Duncan was

674
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 3: out of the game.

675
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:15,879
Speaker 17: So Miami needs a good three.

676
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 14: They've got time to set it up.

677
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 17: Chalmers left side reil.

678
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 3: That's when Bosh set a screen for lebron that he

679
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 3: could either use to cut to the basket or flare

680
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 3: out for a three.

681
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 4: Because Dia was shaded toward the basket.

682
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 3: Lebron chose a three point option, moving to his left

683
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,520
Speaker 3: behind Bosh and took a pass for a fairly open

684
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 3: three point attempt.

685
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 9: James Catchers puts up a three. We'll go.

686
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 3: The key here was di Ou, rather than stay in

687
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 3: the paint and prepare for a potential rebound, saw that

688
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 3: Parker was trapped behind the Bosch screen. And attempted to

689
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 3: jump out and contest what would have been a game

690
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 3: tying three pointer from the best player in the world,

691
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 3: the player he'd been a side tying to defend in

692
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 3: the previous two games of these finals. But that meant

693
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 3: Bosh could waltz freely toward the basket, watching Lebron's attempt

694
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:11,240
Speaker 3: float through the air while he took to the paint.

695
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,800
Speaker 3: Bosh would then fight off Genobi for the rebound he

696
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 3: snatched with two hands.

697
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 8: James outside three in the air off the rim. Doot

698
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 8: Good screamed out for seven seconds.

699
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 3: Would Duncan have stayed in the paint and trusted a

700
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 3: rebound would be on the way, We'll never know.

701
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 4: Here's Chalmers.

702
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 11: The biggest play of the game was Greg Papas taking

703
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 11: out Tim Duncan. That was the biggest player of the

704
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 11: game when he did that.

705
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 4: Did you notice it before the play started that Tim

706
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 4: wasn't in there.

707
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 11: I seen him and I was like, oh, okay, and

708
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:42,319
Speaker 11: I thought it was kind of weird.

709
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 2: I was like, y'all really don't.

710
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 11: Have a rebound then, and I don't know what's gonna happen.

711
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 11: Like So when they did that, they wanted to switch everything.

712
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,799
Speaker 11: So I seen that and I knew somebody would be open.

713
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 11: So when Bron shot the shot, ceb just dove to

714
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 11: the rim and he had no nobody really decides to

715
00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 11: box him out and got it.

716
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 3: And you know, so Cebe gets that rebound. Not a

717
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 3: lot of people are looking at your side of the court.

718
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 3: Your hands up wide open?

719
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 4: Is that were you thinking? When he's coming down with

720
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 4: the ball. Please see me, I'm gonna make this shot.

721
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 11: In that moment, you know, you just like me, you

722
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 11: know how I am. I want to take that last shot.

723
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 11: I want to be in that moment. I don't care

724
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,280
Speaker 11: if Michael Jordan's on the court, Bron, Jesus Christ himself.

725
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,240
Speaker 2: I want to take that shot.

726
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 4: So therefore, well you had Lebron and Jesus on the court.

727
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 4: By the way, Yeah, in.

728
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 11: My mind, I'm open, like no matter what's going on,

729
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 11: if you see me, I'm open. So my hands is up.

730
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 11: But in reality, no, Ray Allen's right there. Everything happened

731
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 11: the way it was supposed to happen.

732
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 3: What actually happened was basketball poetry, basketball wizardry, and basketball history.

733
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 3: Bosch secured the rebound and immediately saw Alan backpedaling in

734
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 3: front of him, bailing toward that point line on the

735
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 3: right side of the floor. Genobili had fallen down while

736
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 3: fighting Boss for the rebound, so Tony Parker rushed over

737
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 3: to try and contest the shot. As Alan so gracefully

738
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 3: gathered the pass, fixed both feet in that small space

739
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 3: between the three point line and the out of bounds line.

740
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,760
Speaker 3: His heels were hovering oh so gently above the white paint.

741
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 3: It would have meant he was out of bounds if

742
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 3: they'd come in contact. Alan had a handful of these

743
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 3: situations throughout the year. He was very regularly the top

744
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 3: option for important shots late in games, and that meant

745
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 3: heat players were quite familiar with Allen's tendencies in these situations.

746
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 4: Here's Alan.

747
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 17: It was like if you had this bazooka in your

748
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 17: back pocket that you had so he knew at any

749
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 17: get moment, and he knew I was always moving around.

750
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 17: You know this is It's interesting because we've been in

751
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 17: this situation before, So I knew Lebron was floating towards

752
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 17: the ball, and as we switched, Genobili would guarding me,

753
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 17: and I just knew that we had to get the ball.

754
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,320
Speaker 17: It wasn't about shooting a three. It is about getting

755
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 17: the ball, and I was going to get it. And

756
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 17: the minute when I seen CB get it, I said,

757
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 17: let me get my butt back out to just three

758
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 17: point line, which, interestingly enough, I had worked on that shot.

759
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 17: I did that every day before a game, so it

760
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 17: wasn't foreign. As that ball left my fingers, it just

761
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 17: felt like it floated, didn't feel didn't feel like anything.

762
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 3: It felt like he'd done it a million times because

763
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 3: he had. Just like Alan said, this team's chemistry was

764
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 3: no mistake. Neither was Alan's ability to shoot and make

765
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 3: a three in any situation. He was obsessive about his preparation,

766
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 3: even practicing shots he'd never taken before in a game

767
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 3: like this one. Jackie McMullin wrote about Alan's regimented ways

768
00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 3: while he was in Boston, and she saw all that

769
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,280
Speaker 3: preparation work for Alan in that exact moment.

770
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 12: Not a popular thing to say in Boston, but I

771
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 12: was glad for him because he had prepared his entire

772
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 12: life for a moment just like that. And that's not hyperbole.

773
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 12: Ray Allen is an OCD cat. Shaves his head at

774
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 12: the exact same time every day. On game day. He

775
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 12: had the exact same meal, chicken and rice. He had

776
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 12: a very precise pregame routine.

777
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 4: He didn't leave.

778
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 12: Anything to chance ever. In fact, I remember they used

779
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 12: to mess with him the Celtics. You know, Paul Pierson

780
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 12: Ray were good friends long before Ray came on the

781
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 12: Celtics and Ray had the same parking spot every day,

782
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 12: and so Paul and some of the guys used to

783
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 12: mess around and get there two hours early and park

784
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 12: their car and Ray spot, you know, and they would

785
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 12: mess with them all the time about I remember Paul

786
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 12: telling me once they were on a plane after a

787
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 12: big win. Paul had had like thirty five points, and

788
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 12: he was sitting, you know, he sat down on the

789
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 12: plane and Ray goes, what are you doing. Go sit

790
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 12: in the seat that you were in yesterday. And Paul's like,

791
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 12: shut up, right, he goes, Paul, like he meant it,

792
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 12: like go sit there. Everything had to be exactly so.

793
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 12: So in that moment, Bosh gets the rebound, because Tim

794
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 12: Duncan isn't in the game, potentially gets the rebound, kicks

795
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 12: it out to Ray.

796
00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 3: Alan took the pass, rose up for three, and created

797
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 3: his most memorable NBA moment as a thirty seven year

798
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 3: old in his seventeenth season in the league, on his

799
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 3: fourth NBA team.

800
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 17: That's the beautiful thing about these moments because when the

801
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 17: three ball goes in, it's like a It's like a

802
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 17: bomb just hit because everybody jumps to their feet.

803
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 9: James catch Us, puts up a three, won't go recount,

804
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 9: bosh back out to Alan his re ty game with

805
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:45,280
Speaker 9: five second.

806
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 17: You know, it's just like such an amazing feeling. You know,

807
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 17: it's like the hairs on your arm.

808
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 2: Just raise up.

809
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 18: Back to Alan the long shot.

810
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 4: Alan, come down town.

811
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 8: What's five point two left?

812
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 4: It got it inbound set, Antonio.

813
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 9: They're gonna wave it off so that they can look

814
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 9: at the shot.

815
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 8: I believe it.

816
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 17: Had been on that floor so much on that court

817
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 17: shooting that same shot that in that exact shot. I've

818
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 17: done that over and over again, so I knew where

819
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 17: it was. You know, I knew exactly where I was

820
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 17: on the floor. You just there's no reason not to.

821
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 2: Now.

822
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,240
Speaker 17: I was nervous that I stepped on the line because

823
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 17: all it took was one time, But I knew where

824
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 17: I was. And that's just you know, you play a

825
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 17: sport for so long, when you work on your whatever

826
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 17: job that you have on a team, when you work

827
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 17: on it, it just becomes second nature to you.

828
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 4: And that's all it was for me.

829
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 17: And you know, Mike Miller had this look on his

830
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 17: face when we came to the huddle, and I know

831
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 17: they called a three, but they're gonna review.

832
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 2: It to make sure my foot was behind line.

833
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 17: I was so nervous because if my foot was on

834
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 17: the line, just a tad bit, then we'd be having

835
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 17: a different conversation right now.

836
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 3: This moment where Ray Allen hit the biggest shot of

837
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 3: his life, a three pointer that tied Game six of

838
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 3: the Finals with five point two seconds left. As heat,

839
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 3: players and fans let out a giant sigh of relief,

840
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:19,799
Speaker 3: would immediately follow with chaos. Did Allen step on the

841
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 3: out of bounds line? Was it a turnover? Did he

842
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 3: step on the three point line? Was it just a

843
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,960
Speaker 3: two point basket that didn't tie the game. All of

844
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 3: these questions would be answered after the brief chaos. Whistles

845
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 3: were being blown, stopping played despite neither team having a

846
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 3: time out, and Spurs coach Greg Popovich was running up

847
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 3: the sideline furious that the referee even stopped the game

848
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 3: because He wanted his team to act quickly before the

849
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 3: celebratory heat can set up their defense, but the replay

850
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 3: rules required the officials to review the Allen shot before

851
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 3: play could continue.

852
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 8: Pay I want to three to the corner. Sure, no

853
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 8: tie up. The cat just stopped the cut. That stopped

854
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 8: to make sure it's a three. Allen hit a three

855
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 8: from the corner to tie the game. San Antonio sees

856
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 8: the clock stop because Mike Callahan, the official, wants to

857
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 8: confirm a three or a two. Now the official say

858
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 8: it's a three. Called on the floor. Well, rotch the replay.

859
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:24,479
Speaker 8: It is clearly a three from Ray Allen. His feet

860
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 8: are behind the line, and we are tied at ninety five,

861
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 8: the all time three point shooter in the history of

862
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 8: the NBA regular season and postseason. Ray Allen hit a

863
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 8: huge three to tie this game.

864
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 3: Once it was determined that Allen's shot was a three

865
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,720
Speaker 3: and that he didn't step out of bounds, the Spurs

866
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 3: could now inbound for a desperate full court play for

867
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 3: a championship. Tony Parker took the inbound pass with Lebron

868
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,040
Speaker 3: James guarding him, dribbled all the way up the left

869
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 3: side of the court, and eventually missed a running bank

870
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 3: shot as he fell toward the seats on the baseline.

871
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 9: Those Parker final seconds Parker on the drive puts it

872
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 9: up overtime.

873
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 3: There Day six, the buzzer sounded and overtime would begin soon,

874
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 3: but not before Allan could officially recognize the enormity of

875
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 3: his shot.

876
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 17: Man it just for me. I always say that it

877
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 17: was written, you know, it was just it was just

878
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 17: meant to happen, you know. And these were of those

879
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 17: situations where if I could give anybody in my life

880
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 17: the opportunity for this one moment to make sure that

881
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 17: they stayed focused and stayed at the task at hand,

882
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:37,359
Speaker 17: because you never known your numbers called you know, all

883
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 17: the shots I've hit my career, like this is the

884
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 17: one that people will talk about the most, and this

885
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 17: will be the one that you know, at this stage,

886
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:48,799
Speaker 17: at this level, where it changed the tide of a

887
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 17: lot of people's careers on both sides, in certainly franchises.

888
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 17: So players make plays and shoot or shoot, and I

889
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,760
Speaker 17: just remember just feeling, you know, such a great feeling

890
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 17: to know that you did your job when your team

891
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 17: needed you to do your job, you know, to do

892
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 17: something and it's more than your job. It's going above

893
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 17: beyond hit and doing something that you know, put your

894
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,280
Speaker 17: team in the situation to win a game where you

895
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,800
Speaker 17: you gain the mostmost of respect from all your peers.

896
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 17: That that is one of the greatest feelings and one

897
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 17: of the reasons that you played this game to be

898
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 17: able to be relied upon him, to be you know.

899
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 11: By your team.

900
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 3: Alan was relied upon to hit a pair of free

901
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,839
Speaker 3: throws with one point nine seconds left in overtime, and

902
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 3: he did so to put Miami up three on the

903
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 3: ensuing Spurs play. Bosh followed up that huge offensive rebound

904
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 3: in regulation with a smothering block of a Danny Green

905
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:47,879
Speaker 3: three point attempt as the buzzer sounded. Green, by the way,

906
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 3: had already broken the Finals record at the time for

907
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,839
Speaker 3: threes made in the series. That block was no minor feat.

908
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 3: Game seven was officially necessary score.

909
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 9: Past the Green breedlot boss game over.

910
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:13,240
Speaker 4: A Game seven and the Spurs were devastated. Here's Matt Bonner.

911
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 7: Did that really just happen? Because again, like you know,

912
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 7: it's such a long, arduous process to reach that mountain

913
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:27,959
Speaker 7: top of winning an NBA championship. It starts in the offseason,

914
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 7: in preseason and training camp in preseason, in eighty two

915
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 7: regular season games, and then the playoffs is like a

916
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 7: whole other season. And then to get to that point

917
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 7: where the trophies twelve feet to your left and you

918
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 7: think you're about to win it, and then you know

919
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 7: at the snap of the fingers it's ray Allen makes

920
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 7: that shot and it's tied, and actually actually we're going

921
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 7: back to square one. It's hard to put that into words,

922
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 7: what that emotion was.

923
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 3: It might have been the biggest gut punch ever felt

924
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 3: in an NBAS. The Spurs saw their future as champions,

925
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 3: and then it was ripped away with ray Allen's shot

926
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 3: and his immediate declaration to get those MFN ropes out

927
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 3: of here. Lebron didn't mince words when discussing what it

928
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 3: meant to be a part of that game.

929
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 16: Well as by far the best game I ever been

930
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 16: a part of, something you would never be able to

931
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 16: recreate once you're done playing a game, and I'm blessed

932
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 16: to be a part of something like this.

933
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 3: Game seven would be nearly impossible to prepare for. With

934
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 3: the sting of Game six still living fresh in Spurs minds,

935
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 3: But would you believe it if I told you it

936
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:40,320
Speaker 3: could have been even more devastating for the San Antonio Spurs.

937
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:44,879
Speaker 3: That's impossible, right, Remember when I told you neither team

938
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,520
Speaker 3: had a time out when that game tying ray Allen

939
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 3: three pointer went in with five point two seconds remaining. Well,

940
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 3: that was especially important because in those chaotic few moments

941
00:48:56,719 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 3: where the referees were stopping play to replay the shot

942
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 3: and make sure it was indeed a three pointer, Greg

943
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 3: Popovich put Tim Duncan back in the game for Boris

944
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 3: Dia without a time out. That was technically an illegal substitution.

945
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 3: Here's the aps, Tim Reynolds.

946
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 18: That review is technically not a substitution. Opportunity Gus who's

947
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 18: on the floor for the final five point two seconds,

948
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 18: Tim Duncan, who should not have been back in the game.

949
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 18: So it would have it appened we vied to a

950
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 18: heat protest, and we all wanted to come back three

951
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 18: days later to finish theket. If Tony Parker makes that shot,

952
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 18: the heat absolutely would have protested that Tim Duncan should

953
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 18: not have been on the floor.

954
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 3: So let's play this alternate ending out together, shall we?

955
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 3: After the review and ensuing a legal substitution. Parker takes

956
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 3: the ball the length of the floor, and, just like

957
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 3: he did in Game one of the series, hits an

958
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 3: incredibly difficult bank shot, this time as time expires.

959
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 4: First off, Parker's shot would have immediately.

960
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 3: Supplanted Allen as the greatest and Finals history because it

961
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:06,880
Speaker 3: would have set off probably the most insane championship celebration ever.

962
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 3: But think about this, The Heat would have seen the

963
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 3: illegal substitution afterward and immediately filed a protest. If the

964
00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 3: Heat would have won the protest and it was a

965
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:21,440
Speaker 3: clear violation, it would have meant having to replay the

966
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 3: final five point two seconds of regulation of Game six

967
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 3: and then likely overtime, and if the Heat pulled out

968
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 3: the win in ot, having to play a Game seven

969
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 3: immediately afterward. It would have been easily the most hectic

970
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 3: Finals finish ever. Imagine the Spurs, still damp from Champagne

971
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 3: celebrating their fifth championship in Miami, having to then regroup,

972
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:49,720
Speaker 3: replay five insanely intense seconds, and if they don't score,

973
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,399
Speaker 3: having to forget all that celebrating and approach a Game

974
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 3: seven for all the marbles that they had already thought

975
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 3: they had here's more from Reynolds.

976
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 18: But can you imagine what that would have done to

977
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 18: the league, Like, Hey, here's a trophy, there's confetti, we're

978
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:09,400
Speaker 18: cutting down nets, we're destroying the locker room, like the

979
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 18: Spurs would have had to go back into their unclean,

980
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 18: champagne soaked locker room the next day or whatever it

981
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:20,399
Speaker 18: would have taken. It's it's so crazy to think that

982
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 18: that could have very easily happened that way if Tony

983
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 18: gets a little more oomphed on that very very makeable

984
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 18: look that he had.

985
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 3: But Parker did indeed miss and while sympathy wouldn't have

986
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 3: been part of the protest process, it is kind of

987
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 3: easy to see how Papovitch could have made that mistake

988
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 3: in such a crazy scene. It's very much a no harm,

989
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 3: no foul situation, but it's an unspoken detail to one

990
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 3: of the best games in Finals history that certainly adds

991
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,439
Speaker 3: to the intrigue of it. There was still a Game

992
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 3: seven left to play in this classic series, but Game

993
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 3: six was unforgettable for anyone who watched. I remember being

994
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 3: in the building at two or three in the morning

995
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 3: following that game, with reporters and broadcasters everywhere still shocked

996
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 3: by what they just saw, so imagine how much it

997
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,399
Speaker 3: was still on the minds of the Spurs. The Heat

998
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 3: would need one more win to close the deal and

999
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 3: repeat as champs, and that lingering Spurs pain would make

1000
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:24,919
Speaker 3: Miami's mission that much more attainable. Jackie McMullin spent time

1001
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 3: with the Spurs during the twenty thirteen offseason. Game six

1002
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 3: was every bit as devastating as you would have thought.

1003
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 12: I remember talking to Brett Brown afterwards. Brett Brown was

1004
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 12: an assistant on that team, and he said he was

1005
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 12: sitting on the bench and he saw the ropes coming out,

1006
00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 12: and he wasn't thinking, Oh no, no, don't do that.

1007
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 12: It's not the balloons you know in the forum prematurely

1008
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 12: right up in the rafters. Brett Brown in real time

1009
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,880
Speaker 12: is going, oh my god, we did it. We just

1010
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 12: beat freaking Lebron. I can't this is I can't believe this,

1011
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 12: this is happening. And then it didn't happen.

1012
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 3: On the next four years, if he that shot was

1013
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 3: the most biggest shot in the world.

1014
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 1: I just show that shot to this day, I think

1015
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: about that shot.

1016
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,240
Speaker 11: Let's not make this Game six one of the greatest

1017
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 11: games to lose in Game seven or not make this

1018
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 11: championship worth having.

1019
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 15: Lebron has missed a do whatever it takes. He is

1020
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 15: today's greatest player.

1021
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 2: Like, at the end of the day, the respect that

1022
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 2: I have in this league and around here.

1023
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:31,919
Speaker 5: Is because I won. It's not because I'm a nice guy.

1024
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 5: It's not because I'm the oldest guy in the league.

1025
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 5: It has nothing to do with that.

1026
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 12: They figured their best chance at beating the Miami Heat

1027
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 12: was to wear Lebron down.

1028
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 4: And how do you do that.

1029
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 12: You put him in the mixer because that was going

1030
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 12: to keep Miami Movie out of their comfort zone. Make

1031
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:52,439
Speaker 12: Lebron work so much harder than anyone had ever made him.

1032
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,839
Speaker 3: Work four years. If he dies a production, If iHeartRadio

1033
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:56,720
Speaker 3: and the NBA